Local Authority Budgeted Revenue Expenditure, 2011-12

Statistics on budgeted revenue expenditure and financing by Welsh authorities include data for police, fire and national park authorities, for 2011-12. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 10 June 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Total budgeted gross revenue expenditure as reported by Welsh local authorities for 2011-12 is £7.6 billion, an increase of 0.9%(r) on the previous year.
• County and county borough councils reported increases of 1.3%(r) or £89 million(r) in their gross revenue expenditure whilst police authorities reported average decreases of 3.3%. Fire authorities remain unchanged whilst national park authorities reported an average decrease of 1.5%.
• Education services accounted for 34% of the total budgeted expenditure and social services 19%.  These two services account for over half of the overall expenditure.
• Neath Port Talbot shows the largest county increase in gross revenue expenditure at 7.4%. Monmouthshire(r) shows the largest decrease at 1.4%(r).
• Net revenue expenditure, i.e. excluding specific and special grants, increased by 0.2% in 2011-12.

(r) Revised on 14 June 2011

Revision note

The release has been revised to add new data which removes the effect of ‘revenue expenditure funded from capital by statute (RECS)’ specific grants for 3 local authorities.  The new data affects 2010-11 budgets only and the 2011-12 data remains unaffected.  Where possible, year on year comparisons have been made using the new data. The changes can be seen in table 2 and chart 3 has been updated. Revised on 14 June 2011.

Further information

StatsWales website

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3963
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)